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the question is will the republicans ever give on taxes? jay carney is the white house press secretary. i pay him the tribute of pronouncing his name properly. great to have you on. you know this fight is so basic now. explain it from what it's like on the inside with the president. how does he see the guts which he showed in coming forth with his end of the deal? the baby hasn't been delivered and he's offering up the ransom money. he's offering his half of the deal before the other side comes to the table. that's pretty daring stuff. how does it work? >> well, chris, the president is serious about trying to tackle our budget challenges. but the budget he produced today, he announced today, has as its primary goal economic growth and job creation. and within the context of a budget that invests in education and in our middle class and in innovation and in infrastructure, he is willing to reduce our deficit further in addition to the $2.5 trillion he's already signed into law as long as it's balanced and fair. his budget proves the basic pr
the question is will the republicans ever give on taxes? jay carney is the white house press secretary. i pay him the tribute of pronouncing his name properly. great to have you on. you know this fight is so basic now. explain it from what it's like on the inside with the president. how does he see the guts which he showed in coming forth with his end of the deal? the baby hasn't been delivered and he's offering up the ransom money. he's offering his half of the deal before the other side comes...
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and replace it by raising the sales tax. that would have shifted, of course, the tax burden away from corporations and the wealthy and disproportionately hurt the poor and working classes. jindal's poll numbers have taken a beating over his plan and he abandoned it just last night. if states are laboratories of democracy, this is one experiment that blew up in jindal's face. we'll be right back. >>> help this be the moment when real change begins. help this with b the beginning of turning tragedy into transformation for us all. >> we're back. that was nicole, who lost her son in the sandy hook tragedy. this week, family members of newtown victims are bringing their fight for tougher gun laws into washington and today, they kicked off a series of meetings with democrats and republicans. jillian joins me now. she traveled from connecticut to washington. last night with president obama as you can see in this photo. her sister was a first grade teacher at sandy hook elementary who died while trying to protect her students. this
and replace it by raising the sales tax. that would have shifted, of course, the tax burden away from corporations and the wealthy and disproportionately hurt the poor and working classes. jindal's poll numbers have taken a beating over his plan and he abandoned it just last night. if states are laboratories of democracy, this is one experiment that blew up in jindal's face. we'll be right back. >>> help this be the moment when real change begins. help this with b the beginning of...
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and replace it by raising the sales tax. that would have shifted, of course, the tax burden away from corporations and the wealthy and disproportionately hurt the poor and working classes. jindal's poll numbers have taken a beating over his plan and he abandoned it just last night. if states are laboratories of democracy, this is one experiment that blew up in jindal's face. we'll be right back. when you're carrying forda lot of weight, c-max has a nice little trait, you see, c-max helps you load your freight, with its foot-activated lift gate. but that's not all you'll see, cause c-max also beats prius v, with better mpg. say hi to the 47 combined mpg c-max hybrid. she's always been able it's just her way.day. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequ
and replace it by raising the sales tax. that would have shifted, of course, the tax burden away from corporations and the wealthy and disproportionately hurt the poor and working classes. jindal's poll numbers have taken a beating over his plan and he abandoned it just last night. if states are laboratories of democracy, this is one experiment that blew up in jindal's face. we'll be right back. when you're carrying forda lot of weight, c-max has a nice little trait, you see, c-max helps you...
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raising capital gains taxes and dividend taxes makes no sense. in fact, the president gave a press conference last night where he said what we need now in the future is more investment. and we just had this giant increase -- tax increase on investment. but i think the democrats who were kind of thumping their chests now and saying we won have to realize that tax increases are done. this is it. there aren't going to be any more tax increases from this -- certainly from this house of representatives. and that means that you got a real question of where the revenues are going to come from to fund all of the government spending that president obama wants to do, because the truth is it's still -- it's still true that most of the income in this country is in the hands of the great middle class. >> the way you just voiced that makes -- lends credence to the fact that this is a tax increase to some. grover norquist gave his blessing to the deal and justified it by saying republicans didn't technically raise taxes since the bush tax cuts expired on januar
raising capital gains taxes and dividend taxes makes no sense. in fact, the president gave a press conference last night where he said what we need now in the future is more investment. and we just had this giant increase -- tax increase on investment. but i think the democrats who were kind of thumping their chests now and saying we won have to realize that tax increases are done. this is it. there aren't going to be any more tax increases from this -- certainly from this house of...
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no new taxes. that is their mantra. they've got the score cards that norquist has that scares everybody. that is their essential point. they will not enter a budget negotiation that has the possibility to -- >> so that's the straight jacket we're in? >> straight jacket they're in. because even if you have the deal leading to budget talks, we have budget talks that biden led before the 2011 deal. and at the same time the same issues came up again and again. >> what do you think is going to happen? we have until wednesday night as the deadline. >> i think it's going to -- i think they'll get it done, but i think it will slop over into thursday and friday and jack lew the secretary of treasury has enough tricks and enough fine print that he can read. >> so we'll be cutting checks again. >> yes. the rainy day fund. >> he'll discover some way to make it go. >> this sloppy is a good word. america shouldn't be sloppy. and the world is watching this. the word is out that we've not got our act together. even if we make this dead
no new taxes. that is their mantra. they've got the score cards that norquist has that scares everybody. that is their essential point. they will not enter a budget negotiation that has the possibility to -- >> so that's the straight jacket we're in? >> straight jacket they're in. because even if you have the deal leading to budget talks, we have budget talks that biden led before the 2011 deal. and at the same time the same issues came up again and again. >> what do you think...
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no new taxes under any circumstances. yesterday paul reid offered a budget that zeroes out the president's health care plan. texas senator ted cruz even proposed a plan to defund obama care himself. with polls showing the president's approval rating dropping, a "washington post" poll put it at 50%, 5 points from a month ago, republicans have decided to stick to their own playbook, obstruct everywhere, hope some of the mud that covers them sticks to the president. steve schmidt is former senior adviser to the mccain/palin '08 presidential campaign and senior strategist on the bush/cheney '04 presidential campaign. robert gibbs was senior adviser for president obama's 2012 re-election campaign and served as white house press secretary. of course, both are now msnbc colleagues. in fact, analysts as well. thank you. steve, i want to start by throwing some dirt ball at you. i don't know how you're going to catch this one. >> yes. >> as we've all watched for the last two or three months now since the horror at newtown, connecti
no new taxes under any circumstances. yesterday paul reid offered a budget that zeroes out the president's health care plan. texas senator ted cruz even proposed a plan to defund obama care himself. with polls showing the president's approval rating dropping, a "washington post" poll put it at 50%, 5 points from a month ago, republicans have decided to stick to their own playbook, obstruct everywhere, hope some of the mud that covers them sticks to the president. steve schmidt is...
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and it involves tax increases and spending cuts. where i think the hi pock k hi is so clear here, it's -- i'm thinking of the congressional budget office, major scorekeeper in this town agrees. you simply can't achieve a sustainable budget without both. we have a group of republicans who were stone walled on boet and were only recently forced to swallowing what is actually a relati relatively small increase after we already cut a trillion in spending. >> why should it be measured as a percentage of gdp? why is that the appropriate way to go? >> that's a great question. as the economy and the population gets larger, we're going to, by definition, spend more. i was arguing with someone today, i was pointing out that in order to stabilize the debt, we need $1.2 trillion over the next ten years. that's just the way the math works out given these recent deals. they're saying one trillion, that's a big number. it's a half of percent of the the gdp over the next year. >> bob schrumm, let ee's talk at the politics of this. if the house repu
and it involves tax increases and spending cuts. where i think the hi pock k hi is so clear here, it's -- i'm thinking of the congressional budget office, major scorekeeper in this town agrees. you simply can't achieve a sustainable budget without both. we have a group of republicans who were stone walled on boet and were only recently forced to swallowing what is actually a relati relatively small increase after we already cut a trillion in spending. >> why should it be measured as a...
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or they believe that tax cuts for rich people help middle class people have higher incomes. weapons of mass destruction. you're trying to apply a thought of a rational thing to and i go back, that's the way these voters are over there. >> i would also say though that there are many, many tens of millions of people who are very skeptical about government. even if they're taking the medicare payments or looking forward to social security. >> government. >> they're very skeptical about government. don't like the reach of government. they distrust everything about it. they have some legitimate reasons to feel that way. >> they say keep the government out of medicare. >> don't take away my medicare. >> here's a guy making noise on the inside. here's darrell issa, he's gotten pretty tough. a few weeks ago, he released limited pieces from interviews his committee conducted over at the irs. those excerpts were his smoking gun proof that washington and by inference the white house were the ones that targeted the tea party targeting in that agency. while saying he was cherry picking t
or they believe that tax cuts for rich people help middle class people have higher incomes. weapons of mass destruction. you're trying to apply a thought of a rational thing to and i go back, that's the way these voters are over there. >> i would also say though that there are many, many tens of millions of people who are very skeptical about government. even if they're taking the medicare payments or looking forward to social security. >> government. >> they're very skeptical...
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but he decided let's go and tax somebody's that's vulnerable. it seems to be pure politics and racial politics. i don't know what you think. nicest pocketbooks. nicest pocketbooks. this is ethnic stereotyping. >> it's not stereotyping and it doesn't bear any relation to reality. the fact is most people who receive that kind of assistance do work for a living. they work for a living. they just don't make enough. and so on the one hand you're talking about a group of people who don't want to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour so people can make at least a decent wage. and on the other hand, they want to take away their food benefits. this is ridiculous. and it's poisoned. >> the logic of not helping people that they think aren't working to not trying to help out people who are working. why would they be tough if they are consistent about the work ethic and they think some people are free loading and watching tv. whatever their image is. why would they want to screw a person who's out there catching the bus at 6:30, okay ma
but he decided let's go and tax somebody's that's vulnerable. it seems to be pure politics and racial politics. i don't know what you think. nicest pocketbooks. nicest pocketbooks. this is ethnic stereotyping. >> it's not stereotyping and it doesn't bear any relation to reality. the fact is most people who receive that kind of assistance do work for a living. they work for a living. they just don't make enough. and so on the one hand you're talking about a group of people who don't want...
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and this time revenue from eliminating a lot of the tax breaks and tax loopholes that disproportionately benefit very wealthy people. >> how much money could you raise in revenue that would in any way affect the deficit? i mean, you'd have to raise so many billions of dollars. and how can you do it through reform without raising the rates? that's what i can't understand. >> well, the president has a plan on the table that first of all says for high-income earners you still get to take a bunch of the deductions but your total deductions are going to be capped at a 28% value. right? so if you have a mortgage interest deduction, you get to take it, but instead of 39 cents on the dollar for someone in that tax category you get a 28-cent on the dollar deduction. it limits the value of your deductions without taking them away. that raises a substantial amount of money. getting rid of oil and gabs subsidies. getting rid of tax breaks for hedge fund managers. those are other things you can do, chris. >> but how does that -- you've got a liberal democratic party. nancy pelosi, the speaker. people
and this time revenue from eliminating a lot of the tax breaks and tax loopholes that disproportionately benefit very wealthy people. >> how much money could you raise in revenue that would in any way affect the deficit? i mean, you'd have to raise so many billions of dollars. and how can you do it through reform without raising the rates? that's what i can't understand. >> well, the president has a plan on the table that first of all says for high-income earners you still get to...
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they've done to undermine the basic civic faith we've all got about not being chumps, being honest at tax time? do they know what they've done to the faith of this republic and what it can do to keep us who we are? there are the right-wing people out there. they love this story. this baby. they always expect the worst. they get up in the morning figuring, well, they're about to be picked up by the fema workers and taken to concentration camps, or the black helicopters of new world order, they're coming to take their guns. yes, this expect-the-worst crowd just got an earful of what it goes to bed at night agitated about. i can only guess what they're saying about the news that some in the irs have decided to target right-wing groups. knew it all the time, they're muttering. this is the government. they're telling everyone they can listen to. and they ought to abolish the darned irs to start with. anyway, mr. president, i have advice for you. this is going to demoralize the good people. it's going to give firepower to the far out. don't talk about being outraged. i can say that. do somethin
they've done to undermine the basic civic faith we've all got about not being chumps, being honest at tax time? do they know what they've done to the faith of this republic and what it can do to keep us who we are? there are the right-wing people out there. they love this story. this baby. they always expect the worst. they get up in the morning figuring, well, they're about to be picked up by the fema workers and taken to concentration camps, or the black helicopters of new world order,...
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accomplishes a stabilization of the debt as a share of gdp over the budget window, and it involves tax increases and spending cuts. where i think the hypocrisy is so clear here is that it is every nonpartisan budget analyst, i'm thinking of the congressional budget office, major scorekeeper in this town agrees, you simply can't achieve a sustainable budget path without both, and we have a group of republicans who have stone walled on both and were only recently forced into swallowing what is actually a relatively small tax increase in this fiscal deal after we've already cut a trillion in spending. >> educate a neophyte like myself. why should it be mesh shushed as a mers measure of gd p? >> as the economy and population gets larger we will by definition spend more. i was arguing with someone today, i was pointing out in order to stabilize the debt, we need $1.2 trillion over the next ten years. that's just the way the math works out given these recent deals, and they started pulling their hair out saying $1 trillion, that's a big number. it's a half a percentage of gdp over the next t
accomplishes a stabilization of the debt as a share of gdp over the budget window, and it involves tax increases and spending cuts. where i think the hypocrisy is so clear here is that it is every nonpartisan budget analyst, i'm thinking of the congressional budget office, major scorekeeper in this town agrees, you simply can't achieve a sustainable budget path without both, and we have a group of republicans who have stone walled on both and were only recently forced into swallowing what is...
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taxing. so right now we'll give you... ...$10 off any turbo tax deluxe level software or higher! find thousands of big deals now... ...at officemax. >>> back to "hardball." first up, texas senator ted cruz is pushing the idea that if president obama supports something, it means a weaker america. he's talking about the nominations of john kerry and chuck hagel. here is cruz speaking at an event put on by the conservative national review institute over the weekend. >> okay. we've got two pending nominations, john kerry, chuck hagel. both of whom are very prominently anti-us, less than ardent fans of the u.s. military. my view of the military and foreign policy is exactly that of reagan's, that it should be driven by the national security interests of the united states, that we should go in with clear, defined objectives, overwhelming force, and then when we're done, get the heck out. >> does anyone believe paul ryan -- ronald reagan would have taken us into a hawkish war like iraq? by the way,
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a grand deal on spending and taxes. what, are you crazy? nothing. they've got nothing done in congress this year. and guess what? you ain't seen nothing yet. as soon as this gang comes back this september, we're going to face a three-month countdown to do even less. no appropriations on time. not even a budget passed. no continuing resolution. and that could well mean no united states government. that's right. the people who left town after doing nothing are coming back for the single purpose of shutting down the rest of the government. and then after days or weeks or more of screwing around, they're going to do what? who knows. by some time late november, stop paying the government's bills. the united states would well be, could well be by christmas time the world's greatest deadbeat. the country that goes into default because threatening to do so has become the new happy toy of the hard right. and because the rest of the country's elected leaders have no way of doing business with each other. it wasn't always this way. so why is this way now? well
a grand deal on spending and taxes. what, are you crazy? nothing. they've got nothing done in congress this year. and guess what? you ain't seen nothing yet. as soon as this gang comes back this september, we're going to face a three-month countdown to do even less. no appropriations on time. not even a budget passed. no continuing resolution. and that could well mean no united states government. that's right. the people who left town after doing nothing are coming back for the single purpose...
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i hope the president will abandon his obsession with raising taxes. instead of playing politics with medicare, when is the president going to offer his detailed plan to save it? tonight would have been a good time for him to do it. >> yes. instead of attacking capitalism and obsessing about taxes and not offering a medicare plan, why didn't he just go out there last night and say something about medicare? something, what would that sound like? >> on medicare i'm prepared to enact reform that is will achieve the same amount of health care savings by the beginning of the next decade as the reforms proposed by the bipartisan simpson/bowles commission. >> i see the problem. once again rather than responding to actual obama, republicans are stuck responding to the fictional image of obama that they've created, the same boilerplate republican talking points but just with a better backstory. >> i've got the "hardball" strategists to debate that question. democrat steve mcmahon and republican john feehery. you first, feehery. you're laughing. jon stewart said
i hope the president will abandon his obsession with raising taxes. instead of playing politics with medicare, when is the president going to offer his detailed plan to save it? tonight would have been a good time for him to do it. >> yes. instead of attacking capitalism and obsessing about taxes and not offering a medicare plan, why didn't he just go out there last night and say something about medicare? something, what would that sound like? >> on medicare i'm prepared to enact...
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they pay for it in much higher taxes. and santorum, is he suggesting the government of the united states would prevent giving health care to somebody so they die? ron reagan and clarence page. first of all, it's a lie to say the government is getting all this money. two, the idea you get free health care anywhere is crazy. you have to pay for it somehow. this part here, this death panel that somehow if you have any kind of national health system. a different system for a single provider, they will cut it off to kill you if you don't vote their way. and they check the voter roles and know what happened in that voting booth and somehow kill off. what kind of crazy talk is this by unusually crazy rick santorum? >> only in the fever swamp that rick santorum lives in does this sort of thing happen. i mean, may i just observe that as you implied earlier that this was a lot of self-contradictory gibberish. does this man not speak english, first of all? can he not express himself clearly? beyond that, he's proposing two things. o
they pay for it in much higher taxes. and santorum, is he suggesting the government of the united states would prevent giving health care to somebody so they die? ron reagan and clarence page. first of all, it's a lie to say the government is getting all this money. two, the idea you get free health care anywhere is crazy. you have to pay for it somehow. this part here, this death panel that somehow if you have any kind of national health system. a different system for a single provider, they...
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they raised taxes. they voted to raise taxes, which was a central plank of republicanism for like my entire life. they raised taxes -- >> for 1%. >> he stripped them to their boxers. >> you are really overdoing this. the republicans gave away the tax increase -- >> they gave it away. they're not going to give on spending. they're like, look, all we've got left is we're for austerity. we want the spending cuts. come what may, we'll do it -- >> chris, i'm told by a lot of democrats on the hill that i saw over the weekend that if the president moves an inch on entitlements, in other words, if he resurfaces that topic, that there is room for a deal here. but right now the president isn't doing that. the president is only emphasizing the tax side of this because he wants, i think, to get cover with his own party -- >> i agree. >> -- for when he comes along with -- >> how do you get the baby back from the kidnappers and get the hostage money for them? that's the -- the whole question is how -- it's a terrible
they raised taxes. they voted to raise taxes, which was a central plank of republicanism for like my entire life. they raised taxes -- >> for 1%. >> he stripped them to their boxers. >> you are really overdoing this. the republicans gave away the tax increase -- >> they gave it away. they're not going to give on spending. they're like, look, all we've got left is we're for austerity. we want the spending cuts. come what may, we'll do it -- >> chris, i'm told by a...
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no conservative group that was scrutinized for its political activity had its tax exempt status denied. not a one according to the ig report and that's nonpartisan. we know it was a republican irs manager who was in charge of the division in question here. and it was a screening manager under him under the republican who came up with the improper targeting criteria on his own. we know this thanks to transcripts released by representative elijah cummings from the interviews that he had with those people at the irs. like i said, all the evidence to date shows the white house has no involvement in the irs controversy. that didn't hold back mcconnell. take a listen here. >> what matters isn't whether they were doing it in washington or cincinnati. that's not what matters or duluth. what matters is the culture of intimidation. the culture of intimidation this president and his allies created around any person or group that spoke up for conservatism. so no, i don't believe that the president ever picked up the phone and told somebody over at irs to slow walk these applications or audit anybo
no conservative group that was scrutinized for its political activity had its tax exempt status denied. not a one according to the ig report and that's nonpartisan. we know it was a republican irs manager who was in charge of the division in question here. and it was a screening manager under him under the republican who came up with the improper targeting criteria on his own. we know this thanks to transcripts released by representative elijah cummings from the interviews that he had with...
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still the highest property taxes in the nation. people are hurting. >> let me ask you to shorten it up a little bit, what would you do the last couple of years this governor didn't do? put it positively. >> i would put people back to work. >> that's a goal. how would you do it? >> i would have a real economic plan. >> what would it do. >> i will tell you what it wouldn't do. >> what would you do different than this governor the last three or four years? >> i would not have pulled out of the ark tunnel. >> and the one that went under water. >> absolutely. not pulled out of the green jobs. >> how would you change the tunnel cost? >> we have said come to new jersey on several occasions trying to give the state of new jersey a comfort level we weren't going to be 11th holding the bill. we had to pay portion of it. >> where would you have gotten the money to pay for it. he didn't want to spend the money. >> it wasn't he didn't want to spend the money. he said there would be overages. the fact of the matter is it was well worth -- all hi
still the highest property taxes in the nation. people are hurting. >> let me ask you to shorten it up a little bit, what would you do the last couple of years this governor didn't do? put it positively. >> i would put people back to work. >> that's a goal. how would you do it? >> i would have a real economic plan. >> what would it do. >> i will tell you what it wouldn't do. >> what would you do different than this governor the last three or four years?...
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this tax deal would also create a perm naanent fix for the alternative minimum tax and extend unemployment insurance for 2 million americans. the president made it clear what his top priority is in any deal. >> preventing that tax hike has been my top priority. because the last thing folks like the folks up here on the stage can afford right now is to pay an extra $2,000 in taxes next year. middle class families can't afford it. businesses can't afford it. our economy can't afford it. >> just an hour later, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell signalled his agreement with the president. >> so i agree, let's pass the tax relief portion now. let's take what's been agreed to and get moving. we all want to protect tax pairs and we can get it done now. >> however, despite what sounds like good news, there will be no vote in the house tonight even in the house reaches a deal. in fact, the senate has adjourned until tomorrow. >> joining me now when we talk a couple of hours ago, there wouldn't be a vote on either side. but maybe something from the senate tonight? quite possibly. aparentally, th
this tax deal would also create a perm naanent fix for the alternative minimum tax and extend unemployment insurance for 2 million americans. the president made it clear what his top priority is in any deal. >> preventing that tax hike has been my top priority. because the last thing folks like the folks up here on the stage can afford right now is to pay an extra $2,000 in taxes next year. middle class families can't afford it. businesses can't afford it. our economy can't afford it....
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. >> they're both for lower taxes and less regulation. the problem is the business community discovered in this last crisis is that the tea party doesn't believe in the basic principles of economics. the idea that the debt ceiling is a real thing and default would be catastrophic for business. i think they've just woken up to that in the last couple weeks. >> the gop may have been banking on the idea no matter how bad things got in the party, donors wouldn't defect. this came up in a conversation with andrew ross sorkin and jim cramer. let's listen. >> i don't think anybody in the business community has said oh, my goodness, i'm going to become a democrat tomorrow. >> i don't know about that. i actually heard ceos say i hope the democrats win in congress. >> this whole question about -- there seems to be a difference of temperament too. you were a political figure of moderation. i know that. this idea of ted cruz saying i would do anything to kill obama care. that doesn't seem like a business person talking. it doesn't seem like a regular
. >> they're both for lower taxes and less regulation. the problem is the business community discovered in this last crisis is that the tea party doesn't believe in the basic principles of economics. the idea that the debt ceiling is a real thing and default would be catastrophic for business. i think they've just woken up to that in the last couple weeks. >> the gop may have been banking on the idea no matter how bad things got in the party, donors wouldn't defect. this came up in...
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meanwhile, huge tax breaks for the rich. he's rand personified here. taking savings, if you want to call it people, care from the government, and give it to rich people. >> absolutely. paul ryan's ideology is not about cutting the deficit. it's about shifting focus of what government invests in. the philosophy spending money on poor people and old people is a waste of money. >> looters. >> they're just looters. >> looters. remember that? >> now we call them the takers. >> it's the takers versus the makers. >> it's $1 trillion in cuts in this budget from medicaid, food stamps and education and job training programs. $1 trillion. and not doing anything in terms of the -- >> well, we're not alone here in this critique. even former omb director under president george w. bush, jim nussle, called ryan's proposal unrealistic. here's what he said on cnbc just this morning. let's listen. >> chairman ryan coming out saying, you know, one of the marquee issues in the budget is going to be repeal of obama care. well, i think we fought that battle. i think it's ove
meanwhile, huge tax breaks for the rich. he's rand personified here. taking savings, if you want to call it people, care from the government, and give it to rich people. >> absolutely. paul ryan's ideology is not about cutting the deficit. it's about shifting focus of what government invests in. the philosophy spending money on poor people and old people is a waste of money. >> looters. >> they're just looters. >> looters. remember that? >> now we call them the...
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the supreme court upheld the mandate as a tax that does fall within congress' place to collect taxes. how do you describe that? >> it must be an error on my website. >> that was republican congressman tim huelskamp admitting on msnbc that his website had it wrong when it called the affordable care act unconstitutional. everyone knows the supreme court ruled last june that the health care law is, in fact, constitutional. president obama's signature achievement, the affordable care act, has been under assault by the right wing ever since it was first drafted back in 2009. now it's the law of the land. it continues to be the subject of attacks from republicans who have manufactured myths about it in the hopes of killing it. joining me now is dr. ezekiel emanuel and joan walsh. tell me if i'm right or wrong, zeke is this plan to delay the bill or the individual mandate a flesh wound or a shot to kill the bill, the act? >> chris, you've been around politics, you know as well as i do that any time anyone says we should delay it or spend time talking about it, it's an attempt to kill it. lyn
the supreme court upheld the mandate as a tax that does fall within congress' place to collect taxes. how do you describe that? >> it must be an error on my website. >> that was republican congressman tim huelskamp admitting on msnbc that his website had it wrong when it called the affordable care act unconstitutional. everyone knows the supreme court ruled last june that the health care law is, in fact, constitutional. president obama's signature achievement, the affordable care...
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republicans aren't putting tax increases on the table. >> you're killing me momentum here, todd. >> yeah, well, sorry. >> nice cameo by our friend chuck todd. >>> up next, why it's time for the democrats to go on offense over the affordable care act. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. >>> north korea says the uncle of leader kim jong-un has been executed after he was found guilty of treason. >>> and jordan brown pleads guilty for the murder of her newlywed husband eight days after the wed. back to "hardball." >>> right now what this law is doing is helping folks and we're just getting started with the exchanges. just getting started with the market places. so we're going to walk away from it. if i have to fight another three years to make sure this law works, then that's what i'll do. that's what we'll do. >> welcome back to "hardball." president obama is unquestionably playing offense on the health care reform law. and now fellow democrats some of whom have been running away from the law are being told to stop and run on it. the wall street journal poll has a case for t
republicans aren't putting tax increases on the table. >> you're killing me momentum here, todd. >> yeah, well, sorry. >> nice cameo by our friend chuck todd. >>> up next, why it's time for the democrats to go on offense over the affordable care act. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. >>> north korea says the uncle of leader kim jong-un has been executed after he was found guilty of treason. >>> and jordan brown pleads...
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or do you try to cut taxes on the middle class? that's the argument here. there are legitimate reasons for the anger at the grassroots. >> i think people want to cash out. >> but the republicans are not being honest because over the years they voted for as much spending if not more than the democrats have over the last decade and a half. that's the part they don't want to tell. >> i want to respond to you and karl rove. today he said like many he's trying to persuade the far right to abandon their kamikaze mission. in an op-ed in today's wall street journal, he said a shutdown now would have much worse fallout than the one in 1995. back then seven of the government's 13 appropriations bills had been signed into law already. so most of the government was untouched by the shutdown. but this time no appropriation bills have been signed into law. so no discretionary spending is in place for any part of the federal government. washington won't be able to pay military families or any other federal employee. tuesday offered this rebuke of the ideology. they're hea
or do you try to cut taxes on the middle class? that's the argument here. there are legitimate reasons for the anger at the grassroots. >> i think people want to cash out. >> but the republicans are not being honest because over the years they voted for as much spending if not more than the democrats have over the last decade and a half. that's the part they don't want to tell. >> i want to respond to you and karl rove. today he said like many he's trying to persuade the far...
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time can ofbe...well...taxing. so right now we'll give you... ...$10 off any turbo tax deluxe level software or higher! find thousands of big deals now... ...at officemax. >>> massachusetts governor duvall patrick has named a place holder to fill the senate seat of john terry. he'd be the second african-american in the senate. tim scott of south carolina, another appointee is the other. it's the first time in history that two african-americans have served in the senate at the same time. in selecting cowan, governor patrick passed over former congressman barney frank who openly lobbied for the job. cowan will serve until april 30th when massachusetts voters will choose someone to fill out the remainder of kerry's term. we'll be right back. stand. our financial advice is geared specifically to current and former military members and their families. [ laughs ] dad! dad! [ applause ] [ male announcer ] life brings obstacles. usaa brings retirement advice. call or visit us online. we're ready to help. learn more with ou
time can ofbe...well...taxing. so right now we'll give you... ...$10 off any turbo tax deluxe level software or higher! find thousands of big deals now... ...at officemax. >>> massachusetts governor duvall patrick has named a place holder to fill the senate seat of john terry. he'd be the second african-american in the senate. tim scott of south carolina, another appointee is the other. it's the first time in history that two african-americans have served in the senate at the same...
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we're not going to reform the tax system so it's a fairer system. you guys are going to do that, reason you? that's what you're planning to do, isn't it? just what i just said? >> well, i think if you look at the budget, the ryan budget, it had fundamental entitlement reforms and i think it called for some tax reform and i think part of that entitlement reform includes means testing which means rich people couldn't get the benefits day were used to getting. i think that's part of this. let me defend greg walden here for a second. his job is to elect republicans. fact of the matter is this cpi proposal, even though i think it's pretty modest, doesn't poll very well. the senior citizens don't want any changes to social security. >> sure. encouraged by the lobbying groups and .1 of 1%. >> polls very poorly. if democrats -- the problem here is democrats are going to run against republicans this election on this very proposal put forward by president obama. >> okay. michael feldman, are democrats smart to show a little leg here? the president saying, oka
we're not going to reform the tax system so it's a fairer system. you guys are going to do that, reason you? that's what you're planning to do, isn't it? just what i just said? >> well, i think if you look at the budget, the ryan budget, it had fundamental entitlement reforms and i think it called for some tax reform and i think part of that entitlement reform includes means testing which means rich people couldn't get the benefits day were used to getting. i think that's part of this....
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you got the tax increases. >> who did they tax? >> everybody got taxed, chris, so don't sit in this bubble and think it didn't happen. income taxes, payroll taxes, everybody got a hit to the bottom line. republicans signed off on it. >> they were for it. >> they signed off on the tax cuts. we have not seen the spending cuts. look, this went went off to illinois to a play where he gave his first economic speech in 2005. we've heard this before, we've got in this room, what is different from yesterday than what we have seen before? >> congressman, why why he just set rear at war, let's face it. >> because the president has a few tools available to them at thafr disposal. clearly, what you outlined is the republicans in washington have only one interest. that is being obstructionists action and they're even willing to be obstructionists and stop him to the point of harming the economy. that's deeply disturbing. the president has the bully pulpit. it's diffuse, so over the next few months, president obama is traveling the country, talk
you got the tax increases. >> who did they tax? >> everybody got taxed, chris, so don't sit in this bubble and think it didn't happen. income taxes, payroll taxes, everybody got a hit to the bottom line. republicans signed off on it. >> they were for it. >> they signed off on the tax cuts. we have not seen the spending cuts. look, this went went off to illinois to a play where he gave his first economic speech in 2005. we've heard this before, we've got in this room,...
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and replace it by raising the sales tax. that would have shifted, of course, the tax burden away from corporations of the wealthy and disproportionately hurt the poor and working classes. jindal's poll numbers have taken a beating over his plan and he abandoned it just last night. if states are laboratories of democracy, this is one experiment that blew up in jindal's face. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness? by the armful? by the barrelful? the carful? how about...by the bowlful? campbell's soups give you nutrition, energy, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. thto fight chronic. osteoarthritis pain. to fight chronic low back pain. to take action. to take the next step. today, you will know you did something for your pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a pain reliever fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have
and replace it by raising the sales tax. that would have shifted, of course, the tax burden away from corporations of the wealthy and disproportionately hurt the poor and working classes. jindal's poll numbers have taken a beating over his plan and he abandoned it just last night. if states are laboratories of democracy, this is one experiment that blew up in jindal's face. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness? by the armful? by the barrelful? the carful? how...